Young adult fiction booming on Broadway but cute it ain’t
NEW YORK — When actress and playwright Claudia Shear was first approached to turn a novel for young adults into a Broadway musical, she was
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NEW YORK — When actress and playwright Claudia Shear was first approached to turn a novel for young adults into a Broadway musical, she was
Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo, the co-artistic director of Resorts World Manila’s Full House Theater Company, has announced on her Facebook page that Full House is mounting the
9 Works Theatrical’s production, directed by Robbie Guevara and led by the sterling tandem of Audie Gemora and Michael de Mesa, hits all the right notes
‘For a lot of people, when it comes to love there is no gender,’ says Audie Gemora about playing the fey Albin, opposite Michael de Mesa’s Georges, in 9 Works Theatrical’s production of the musical
When the curtains rise for the last performance of the Broadway musical “Beauty and the Beast” today, Feb. 8, at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), the production will have hurdled two major challenges: the cancellation of a number of dates to give way to Pope Francis’ recent visit; and the depressing national mood following the Mamasapano massacre.
The reward for the theater viewer is in how the stage adaptation recaptures the sweep, emotion and pathos of the animated film.
The biggest challenge, said choreographer Matt West, was for him and director Rob Roth to pick 30 performers from 9,000 actors from all across America.
The sensational Broadway and West End musical “Chicago” is ready to thrill Philippine audiences and set the stage on fire on December 3, 2014. Its highly-anticipated Manila season plays until December 21, 2014 at The Theatre at Solaire, and is presented in the Philippines by VISA and SMART Infinity, in cooperation with Solaire Resort and Casino.
On Jan. 11-25, 2015, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” makes its Philippine debut at the Main Theater (Tanghalanag Nicanor Abelardo) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Towards the climax of Act II of “Disney’s Tarzan,” the short-lived Broadway musical running until Saturday at the Meralco Theater as Viva Atlantis Theatricals’ second offering of the year, its titular ape-man, torn between remaining with his adoptive gorilla family and following his newfound human friends back to England, frustratingly exclaims, “I’m so confused!”
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